The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reached a $5.8 million settlement with George’s Inc. in an illegal wage suppression conspiracy among the nation’s largest poultry processors. They shared information on compensation plans for years, and when workers and investigators started asking questions, they tried to cover up their illegality.
A Georgia married couple running restaurants in Georgia were indicted on 16 counts, including labor trafficking conspiracy, forced labor, and alien smuggling. Rather than a worker shortage, we have an honest employer shortage.
Habitat loss, despite mitigation efforts, is an inevitable result of adding more than 3 million people per year.
Michael Lind has long been a voice on the left calling for protections for workers in the United States. Today, he is a voice crying out in the wilderness. With today's Democratic leaders fully embracing globalization and mass immigration, Lind's latest book somehow seems revolutionary.
Fake News Floods Social Media About E-Verify.
Senators Bill Cassidy and Ted Budd have expressed outrage over the idea that there is worker exploitation in the H-2A visa program. They claim besmirching the H-2A program is demonstrating a bias against farmers. The disconnect from reality exposed by Senator Cassidy and Senator Budd is great proof of the problem faced by those trying to restore sanity to our immigration system.
Creating new quasi-legal categories for people doesn't make a difference on the ground if the numbers aren't addressed. Everything has a limit.
An 18-month investigation by Prism, Futuro Investigates, and Latino USA, is the latest to find horrific abuse throughout the H-2A agricultural temporary worker program. The H-2A visa includes extensive labor protections concerning wages, recruitment, working conditions, and housing, with multiple Federal departments playing a role in approval and oversight. And yet, the stories of abuse are as numerous as the regulations and Federal staff designed to stop it.
Creating quasi-legal programs to admit more people under a different category on a spreadsheet does absolutely nothing to change the math or the real-world impact.
Illegal immigration is far outpacing green cards since the border system collapsed two years ago. The E-Verify bill, H.R. 2, would get us back to a more credible system, but is that something our elected officials want?